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Related Articles. Jiuzhaigou Famous Fairyland. Emeishan Sacred Buddhist Site. Leshan Giant Buddha. Gonggashan Best for Hiking. Daocheng Yading Shangri La Views. Dujiangyan Irrigation System. Siguniangshan Eastern Alps. Sichuan is a administrative province situating in southwestern China. All rights reserved A dvertisement on this website? Customers in China, please call our China Office at. The province is , square km large with population There are 32 cities, 3 minority nationality autonomous prefectures, counties in Sichuan Province.
Climate of Sichuan Sichuan Province has tremendous climatic difference resulting from the physical variation. In the eastern basin it is subtropical monsoon climate characterized by warm winter and hot summer, early spring and rainy autumn. It is wet and foggy and has little sunshine. The western part of Sichuan provinces has temperate or subtropical plateau climate, while the southern part of Sichuan shows marked variation in climates in the mountains and canyons. Frost-free period in the basin is days per year, but on the plateau is only less than 90 days.
The average annual precipitation of Sichuan province is mm, of which the basin has much larger share than the plateau. After the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty unified China B. These four Lu were called "four ravine lu" which is the origin of Sichuan Sichuan in Chinese means "four ravines". In the year of during the reign of Kublai Khan, the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Sichuan was formally designated as a province.
The principal cash crops are rapeseed, citrus fruit, natural silk and tong oil. Sichuan produces more rapeseed than any other province in the country. Sichuan's sugar cane, ramie, camphor, varnish, wax trees, tea and bamboo also have an important place in China's production.
In the western mountainous region, there are large virgin forests of both conifer and broad leaf trees. Stock-breeding is wide spread in the province. One the western plateau, the main livestock is cattle, goat, sheep, Yak, Pianniu hybrid cattle of bull and female yak and horse. In the basin, pig rising is dominant. Hog bristle and casing of Sichuan Province are China's traditional exports.
The mountainous region between the plateau and the basin has rich flora and fauna owing to different natural environment.
It is the home of a good number of valuable birds and animals. Rare and precious trees can also be found there. Nature reserves are set up in many places.
Sichuan Local Cuisine Sichuan food represents one of the four schools of cuisine in China.
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